Obama’s Fallout for the Left

NRO contributorVictor Davis Hanson is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. His latest book is The Savior Generals, published this spring by Bloomsbury Books.

Conservatives
keep blaring, “Obama lied!” over the president’s serial untruths about
the Affordable Care Act. Even liberal pundits now talk of the
president’s “misspeaking,” or even of his “misleading” statements and
only so-so corrections.

But so what?...

Obama has proved disingenuous, without suffering many consequences,
for much of his tenure — raising taxes when he said he would not; vastly
increasing the national debt when he said he would cut the deficit in
half by the end of his first term; promising lower unemployment when in
fact he has presided over a jobless rate of 7 percent or more for every
month of his administration; bragging about new gas and oil production,
which actually came on private land despite, not because of, his
efforts; claiming credit for reducing a deficit that fell only because
of the sequestration that he fought, and only because his previous
deficits were so staggering that they were not sustainable....